Two obvious responses. One: What did he think he was getting into? The first film featured a 12-year-old girl cutting people’s legs off while dropping the C-bomb, for cripes sake. And two: It’s make-believe, Jim. Make-believe that’s so far over-the-top, in fact, that it makes “The Mask” look like “Doing Time on Maple Drive.” Mark Millar, who wrote the “Kick-Ass” comic, hits ‘em both in his reply to Carrey:

As you may know, Jim is a passionate advocate of gun-control and I respect both his politics and his opinion, but I’m baffled by this sudden announcement as nothing seen in this picture wasn’t in the screenplay eighteen months ago. Yes, the body-count is very high, but a movie called Kick-Ass 2 really has to do what it says on the tin. A sequel to the picture that gave us HIT-GIRL was always going to have some blood on the floor and this should have been no shock to a guy who enjoyed the first movie so much. My books are very hardcore, but the movies are adapted for a more mainstream audience and if you loved the tone of the first picture you’re going to eat this up with a big, giant spoon. Like Jim, I’m horrified by real-life violence (even though I’m Scottish), but Kick-Ass 2 isn’t a documentary. No actors were harmed in the making of this production! This is fiction and like Tarantino and Peckinpah, Scorcese and Eastwood, John Boorman, Oliver Stone and Chan-Wook Park, Kick-Ass avoids the usual bloodless body-count of most big summer pictures and focuses instead of the CONSEQUENCES of violence, whether it’s the ramifications for friends and family or, as we saw in the first movie, Kick-Ass spending six months in hospital after his first street altercation. Ironically, Jim’s character in Kick-Ass 2 is a Born-Again Christian and the big deal we made of the fact that he refuses to fire a gun is something he told us attracted him to the role in the first place.

Ultimately, this is his decision, but I’ve never quite bought the notion that violence in fiction leads to violence in real-life any more than Harry Potter casting a spell creates more Boy Wizards in real-life. Our job as storytellers is to entertain and our toolbox can’t be sabotaged by curtailing the use of guns in an action-movie. Imagine a John Wayne picture where he wasn’t packing or a Rocky movie where Stallone wasn’t punching someone repeatedly in the face. Our audience is smart enough to know they’re all pretending and we should instead just sit back and enjoy the serotonin release of seeing bad guys meeting bad ends as much as we enjoyed seeing the Death Star exploding.

Sonny Bunch thinks Carrey’s post-Newtown crisis of conscience has less to do with sincere misgivings about the violence in “Kick-Ass 2″ than about spending weeks on end in promotional interviews being asked again and again and again why a gun-control crusader thinks it’s cool to star in a movie like this and why, if he’s so worried about children’s safety, we occasionally find him babbling about the evils of vaccination. Could be. We’ll know whether it’s a real change of heart if he ends up donating his pay for the movie, right? If he now believes that cartoon movie violence helped motivate Adam Lanza, then he’s taken a form of blood money. Best to disgorge and be clean again.

Here’s the trailer, which is now getting thousands of extra plays today thanks to Carrey’s attempt to un-promote the film. Looks like a fun goof on “Avengers”-type superhero extravaganzas. Exit question: How much gun violence is in this movie, precisely? Carrey’s character is waving around a gun at the end here, but I thought most of the blood spatter in “Kick-Ass” comes from people getting stabbed, karate-ed, and, er, bitten on the crotch by dogs. That’s what makes it cartoonish. Does that mean Carrey’s objection is to all forms of movie violence after Newtown, not just gun violence? If so, why?

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How can a guy who portrayed Andy Kauffman at one point, not understand the basic concept of subversion of type? From my understanding of his character (based only on previews, I’ll grant you), he’s the most ironic role in the film!

Riiiiiight. Dude signs up for a sequel to a movie that featured an 11 year-old girl who slices up a bunch of baddies Kill Bill-style, gets the crap kicked out of her, drops F-bombs and even uses the C-word, and watches her own father gets burned alive in front of her….and NOW he suddenly has a moral objection to the content of the follow-up? Let me guess. He already cashed the check from the studio, correct?

Exit question: How much gun violence is in this movie, precisely? Carrey’s character is waving around a gun at the end here, but I thought most of the blood spatter in “Kick-Ass” comes from people getting stabbed, karate-ed, and, er, bitten on the crotch by dogs.

Hit Girl slices people up, but her dad(played by Nick Cage) has a collection of guns that would make the NRA envious. And the climactic battle has Kick-Ass using a jetpack armed with two miniguns to take out a whole bunch of baddies in a highrise(ala Ahnuld in True Lies). So gunplay was a major element in the first movie. Jim Carrey is full of crap to act like he had was unaware of this when he signed onto the sequel.

I’ve long given up on the irrelevant Hollywood movies and the even less relevant people who “act” in them. Their real life beliefs and foolish shenanigans make them nothing but another bunch of dishonest hypocritical liberals only interested in themselves and enforcing their personal beliefs on an entire society.

…Carrey’s post-Newtown crisis of conscience has less to do with sincere misgivings about the violence in “Kick-Ass 2″ than about spending weeks on end in promotional interviews being asked again and again and again why a gun-control crusader thinks it’s cool to star in a movie like this…

Bingo. The thrashing he received about this on Twitter after he dropped “Cold, Dead Hand” was pretty relentless. He’s trying to save face.

…or trying to promote his movie:

Here’s the trailer, which is now getting thousands of extra plays today thanks to Carrey’s attempt to un-promote the film.

Kind of a “don’t do this cool thing” (TVtropes) or a modern version of old movie (can’t remember the title) that claimed to be so scary that “doctors” were at showings in case viewers had heart attacks.

Carrey lives in a cartoon world, so yes, he does think cartoon movies have real world implications.

He’s a cartoon liberal who goes home to his looney tunes wife in their cartoon mansion that’s so over the top no one would think it’s real. And they stand on a podium and incite real life people into believing cartoon theories about vaccines harming children.

So yes, it’s somewhat ridiculous for anyone to question his sincerity in believing in cartoon worlds with real world implications.

Gee, you would think that someone who is a “passionate advocate of gun control” would relish the chance to speak of it time and time again, while also explaining why Hollywood has no skin in the game due to entertainment being the artful depictions of current society, especially the bad. He’s just lazy and wonders if the all publicity is good theory applies here. Besides, he has probably gotten paid so why does he give a flying flip how the movie does?

I have no idea if he’s getting job offers. But I kind of suspect directors want you to promote their film, not badmouth it, and future employers won’t look kindly on that. Even, maybe especially, Hollywood lefties.

The original “Kick Ass” movie was a riot. Nicholas Cage’s impersonation of Adam West was hysterical. The fight scenes with Hit Girl were incredibly funny in a morbid way. Kick Ass 2 will suck every bit as much as “Caddy Shack 2″ sucked. You couldn’t pay me to go to the theater for this piece of crap. Hollywood has been out of ideas for years now. Save your money, folks.

Also of note, he expressed his personal regrets but thumbs up for everybody else involved in making the picture. He also didn’t blast the picture itself, meaning go ahead and see it, just make sure you know I feel really bad, deep down in my sorry heart.

Allah, you contention that movies are make believe and are therefore harmless isn’t really accurate. First of all, virtually everything we see and read these days is “make believe”. Republicans pretended to care about our national sovereignty but are now selling us out to foreign nationals who have broken our laws.

Every piece of sensory input we receive has an impact on us whether we know it or not. That is why advertising is a multi-billion dollar industry and that is how politicians literally get away with murder. They “sell” us on something using rhetoric. Millions of impressions of violence can have the effect of desensitizing us to it and making it look not only harmless, but exhilarating. The streets of the inner city are filled with children acting out these violent fantasies and real death is the result.

I am not for censorship, but to casually write this stuff off as being “make believe” is really not honest. 90% of the time, a good family upbringing can help offset the poor example the entertainment culture provides. However, in this day and age there are millions of kids who get no such guidance in the home. Their teachers ARE the rappers, entertainers, sports figures and movies.

And, do it secretly. You should use your wealth for a good cause and stop using tragedies as platforms to garner press.

(By the way, luv, how’s that defamation suit going against Fox? Have you found a lawyer, who doesn’t believe that Sullivan applies to you? If not, I have one for you and he graduated from Harvard Law School…of Kinshasha Online, 1 Dirt Road, Suite #201 Thatched-Roof Strip Mall, the Democratic Republic of Congo. His name is nonpartisan NoBrain and he will definitely tell you that you’re not a public figure and have a slam dunk case against Fox for defamation because they quoted you verbatim.)

I can no longer in good conscience watch any movie star who thinks his status entitles him to preach his own politics to the rest of us. Especially when I haven’t liked any of his work anyway. I just feel more motivated. I hope his career dies.

What a typical hypocritical liberal Jim Carrey is..I did see the first movie but won’t be seeing this because Carrey is on my boycott list..He’ll gladly get paid for this movie but also trash it at the same time..he is gladly taking his cake and eating it too